All right. I’ve made the decision to try out this Massively Multiplayer Online Game thing, and have pre-ordered City of Heroes (www.cityofheroes.com).
The thing is, while I can probably go solo just fine, superheroes have always come in teams (at least for me).
Anyone else out there in Dopeland with a hankerin’ to serve up some fresh justice to the evildoers? Perhaps we could start up a team…
I definitely want to try out City of Heroes, but I want to get some reviews on it first. I was stoked for Star Wars Galaxies until I heard it was more Everquest just with lightsabers. But if it sounds like it turned out well and the price is right, I’ll join up.
What Max Carnage said. I’m not buying another MMORPG until it’s been out for at least a month. I got burned by Galaxies, too – initial word-of-mouth was almost universally positive, and it wasn’t until I’d already bought it and played a week or so that I realized it wasn’t finished and wasn’t headed in the right direction regardless.
But City of Heroes definitely sounds interesting, and Freedom Force has already broken the SuperHero Game Curse. I can’t imagine how a superhero game where everybody’s a superhero would work, exactly, but it’s worth a shot.
And I’d be willing to be at least a sidekick on the Fighting Dopes.
Well, I just pre-ordered it. Hope it’s worth it.
I can’t promise anything at this time, but I like the idea of a Dope Teem that’s out to save the world from Ignorant Villians.
Just to warn you, my style of play is both competitive (I’m out to ‘win’, i.e., advance tactically in the game) AND tongue-in-cheek, wise-cracking, self-referential, multi-allusional satirical fun.
Think Tick.
Peace.
Spoooon!
There is alot more bad things in SWG than there is good, but saying its EQ with lightsabers is pretty much entirely wrong. Its UO in space, and lightsabers are only for those dedicated enough to spend months leveling classes in order to unlock a jedi slot. It sucks, but for the reasons you thought 
But NOT for the reasons you thought i meant.
I’m in the beta now – all preorder customers get into the beta, so I’m not particularly special in this regard.
I’m also in the World of Warcraft beta. It’s kind of interesting to compare the two. WoW, as a Blizzard game, has an excellent UI, lots of very good engagement mechanisms (near-constant rewards/improvement, for one thing), no loss of xp or penalty on character death (you can choose to trade off xp for immediate resurrection, or walk to your corpse as a ghost).
CoH, on the other hand, has… superheroes.
I spent several hours playing CoH last night.
If anyone else is playing, look me up – my level 5 Science Blaster “Temperator” could use some help clearing out the bad guys.
You ain’t making it sound that appealing so far.
I’ve got the Beta, too, and so far I like it. Granted, I haven’t done much other than kill a crap-load of muggers and gang-bangers, but it’ve gotten two levels doin’ it! I will say, though, that the game looks amazing. In addition, if you go to www.cityofheroes.com, you find out there is a HUGE history associated with the world of the game, and I’m sure lucky players might get to take part in it, as well.
I’ve got two characters now. I can definetly say that some types are better suited to group play than others. I currently am a level 4, mutant blaster known as Novalis…I think that’s his name, I really can’t remember. But my other (lesser-played character) is a level 2 science tanker called “Levinworth.” I plasy on the Prime server, so if you’re playing the beta don’t hesitate to come fight evil with me.
Man, I’d love to. I’ve been watching the website and forums for this game for months (others have been there for up to two years), and had sort of planned to make it my first MMO game. But I’ll need to upgrade my machine in a couple of ways before the game could possibly run well, and I can’t really afford that. As soon as possible, though.
Maybe I’m being too subtle. What I was trying to imply is that, although World of Warcraft is a very cool game with a great UI, there is something very important about the subject matter of a game.
I like fantasy. I like superheroes more.
And right now, I love being able to run up to a couple of gangbangers doing a drug deal with a pusher and shoot a fireball at them.
I can’t say much about the game – there is a fairly comprehensive NDA for playing in the beta – but I will say that I am enjoying it a lot.
If you like superheroes, if the idea of roleplaying super-people taking down bad guys in small teams sounds like fun to you… then I think you’d like City of Heroes.
I also need to make a few upgrades to my PC, which I’m in the midst of doing, to run this game well, but I’m definitely in for the Hall of Dopers.
I’ll chime back in when the game, and me, are going.
I’ve been playing the hell out of this game ever since early last week, when I (finally) got my invite. I’ve got a level 6 Science Blaster named, appropriately enough, Lightnin’.
Sure, being able to throw lightning bolts is fun, but his best ability is Power Thrust- I LOVE being able to punch the bad guys and knock 'em across the street. I also just got my first movement power: Combat Leaping. I can’t quite jump over buildings, but I can easily scale them now.
Look me up. I could certainly use the help, since those zombies are starting to get *tough[/I[. Ya’ll think we could have a team named “Friends of Cecil”, or “Warriors Against Ignorance”?
Been in the beta for a few months. The game’s a blast. I just last night got teleportation for my hero (level 14, mainly a healer), and I’m loving it.
One of the things I can definately recommend about the game is- if you’re a combat MMORPGer, there’s lots to do- the game is rather ‘beat the villain’-based. However, there -are- storylines out there if you look for them (my hero and a few others, who actually do RP, not just combat, are currently trying to puzzle out the motives and plans of two different villain organizations. We’re trying to steer ourselves towards missions that will let us find out more about them.)
All of the beta heroes, I believe, are going to be wiped before release, but when the actual game starts up, I’ll post here as to what / whom I’m playing, and maybe we can all work for justice in the name of Cecil!
Okay, sounds like we have a couple of folks in the game… now we need a superteam name.
I think “The Justice Dopes” sounds like a good idea. How about y’all?
Ok I’m getting tempted. how much is it going to be per month? And if I go ouot and get my pre-order today, how soon would I get to start Beta testing?
Not sure on the monthly fee. It may be $15 a month – I’m seeing that on the forums, but haven’t found an official announcement of cost.
If you get a pre-order box today, it’ll include the pre-order key necessary to set up an account. You should get invited within a couple of days – the original promise was that all pre-order customers would be invited to beta by 4/7 (and I was), but I would imagine that new pre-orders would be invited on a daily basis.
I’m really liking it. It’s keeping me away from World of Warcraft, which is saying something.
how fun can it be if you can’t be a villian? is there a pvp option?
(i know nothing about the game)
If you’re looking to play the villain, this game might interest you… although it isn’t a MMOG.
No villains, no PVP. There are rumors that later expansions will allow for ‘danger room’-type areas where PVP can be done. As of now, like one of the developers has said it, it’s a city of HEROES.
(Funny side note- long ago in beta there were crashes where all the AI controlled people would vanish from the city, leaving it, quite literally, a city of heroes.)